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figlet-fonts
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xero / figlet-fonts

figlet-fonts

my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts

7Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
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my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts

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Observed mentions: 2018-05-04 16:56:32 UTC to 2023-11-05 14:59:53 UTC.

012342018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413

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That's still kinda cool. Now I'm curious if it can decode all the figlet fonts too. Size can be controlled with HTML as some are easier to read visually by a human if smaller [Edit] - This might makes ones eyes bleed but I am curious if it can read this [1]. If installing figlet type showfigfonts to see examples of all the installed fonts. More can be installed [2] in /usr/share/figlet/fonts/ [1] - https://ohblog.net/chatgpt_test/ [2] - https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts
In Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT
Oh nice! That seems to be using the tool 'figlet' (or maybe toilet, from libcaca), and the font is banner3-D, that's available here: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts If you install the figlet (or toilet) tool and clone that font repo you can do a : figlet -d ./figlet-fonts -f Banner3-D My text '##::::'##:'##:::'##::::'########:'########:'##::::'##:'########: ###::'###:. ##:'##:::::... ##..:: ##.....::. ##::'##::... ##..:: ####'####::. ####::::::::: ##:::: ##::::::::. ##'##:::::: ##:::: ## ### ##:::. ##:::::::::: ##:::: ######:::::. ###::::::: ##:::: ##. #: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##...:::::: ## ##:::::: ##:::: ##:.:: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##:::::::: ##:. ##::::: ##:::: ##:::: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ########: ##:::. ##:::: ##:::: ..:::::..:::::..:::::::::::..:::::........::..:::::..:::::..::::: Toi
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let also has colour effects and can output in different formats: toilet -E list Available export formats: "caca": native libcaca format "ansi": ANSI "utf8": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes "utf8cr": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes and MS-DOS \r "html": HTML "html3": backwards-compatible HTML "bbfr": BBCode (French) "irc": IRC with mIRC colours "ps": PostScript document "svg": SVG vector image "tga": TGA image "troff": troff source Cool! Edit: added image formats
In Hello, PNG
Aside from 3rd party code perhaps one middle-of-the-road idea would be a table of a few hundred factoids and then code that makes multiple choice checkbox factoids like - Select everything that is a color im sure there are more clever open-ended questions and maybe sometimes switch up "is" with "is not". - Red - Blue - Monkey - Violet - Armchair People say that bots can learn such things but if every site had their own in-house tool then bots would have to keep track of thousands of site specific puzzles. Each site could even rotate through a dozen sets of different puzzle types and pause the ones that get learned. This would avoid sending cookies to a third party or depending on 3rd party code thus mitigating some corporate capture. Bonus complexity: Don't use Alpha-Numeric characters. Use something like "figlet" [1] and cycle throug
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h a few of its ASCII art fonts. [1] - https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts
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